James Cooney

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Attorney at Law

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

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Duke University

B.A

1979

History and Political Science, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Distinction in History, Pi Sigma Alpha Political Honor Society, Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Honor Society, J.D., 1982, University of Virginia School of Law, Order of the Coif, Research & Projects Editor, Virginia Law Review, 1981, 1982.

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Activities: Bar Associations: Mecklenburg County Bar Association, Chair, Civil Litigation Section, 1993-1998

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Activities: North Carolina Bar Association, Chair, AIDS Task Force

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Activities: Member, North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, Board of Directors, 1992-1998, President, 1996-1997

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Activities: General Assembly Task Force on the Rules of Civil Procedure, 1997-1998

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Activities: Permanent Member, Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference

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Activities: Chair, Mecklenburg County Courts Committee, 1993-1998

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Activities: American College of Trial Lawyers

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Activities: Member, Board of Directors, Community Defender Organization for the Western District of North Carolina (2004 to present)

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Activities: Special Select Committee for the North Carolina State Bar, Investigation into Hoke/Graves Disciplinary Hearing, 2005

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Activities: Admitted to bar 1984, North Carolina

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Activities: Admitted to practice before the U

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Activities: District Court for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of North Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the U

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Activities: Supreme Court, and all North Carolina State courts